"We're Really Screwed Now."

[Robin Landseadel]

Hard to imagine any current events closer to Bleeding Edge than this:

"One of the National Security Agency's biggest defenders in Congress  
is suddenly at odds with the agency and calling for a top-to-bottom  
review of U.S. spy programs. And her long-time friends and allies are  
completely mystified by the switch.
"We're really screwed now," one NSA official told The Cable. "You know  
things are bad when the few friends you've got disappear without a  
trace in the dead of night and leave no forwarding address."

In a pointed statement issued today, Senate Intelligence Committee  
chairman Dianne Feinstein said she was "totally opposed" to gathering  
intelligence on foreign leaders and said it was "a big problem" if  
President Obama didn't know the NSA was monitoring the phone calls of  
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She said the United States should  
only be spying on foreign leaders with hostile countries, or in an  
emergency, and even then the president should personally approve the  
surveillance.

It was not clear what precipitated Feinstein's condemnation of the  
NSA. It marks a significant reversal for a lawmaker who not only  
defended agency surveillance programs -- but is about to introduce a  
bill expected to protect some of its most controversial activities."



"The rest . . . .    . . . . of the story":

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/28/were_really_screwed_now_nsas_best_friend_just_shivved_the_spies



And here's Mr. DiFi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Blum



Conflict of interest? No way!








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